(ANSA) - MILAN, 08 DEC - "Not shaking would have meant betraying Verdi" the director Davide Livermore, who signed his fourth inauguration of La Scala in a row ("four in a row not even Strehler did) explains the reason why he decided to move around Macbeth in a time close to ours. "I make shows based on the score - he tells ANSA -. Puccini doesn't move him because he doesn't want to, Verdi is different ", he provoked and made an" implacable account of society "as with Traviata. Verdi too" would have exploited technology. I did nothing else - he added - other than serving him ".
Having reached the fourth Prima, Livermore had taken into account some objection," it is normal - he says - I could have rebuilt the Macbeth of 7 and they would have contested ".But an "ovation" came from the majority of the audience.
That of making the work more contemporary was "a very desired choice" because in this way "we brought the work close to us" since the story of Macbeth, that is, of the destructive capacity of power, is there for all to see, and can be found in a office, "as in parliament or a board of directors".
"The challenge is to tell stories and retell them because they are ours" and in this "technology is an important tool".
"This is a path that I have started for years and in which there is a lot to do. It is only the beginning - he predicts - in the future it will be more and more difficult to do without technology".
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